From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: WD "RED" drives - are they any good for mdadm? Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:38:34 +0800 Message-ID: <5116434A.6060300@fnarfbargle.com> References: <50CF2112.1090406@gmail.com> <5115727E.9050601@tmr.com> <20130209082059.GA2372@lazy.lzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130209082059.GA2372@lazy.lzy> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Piergiorgio Sartor Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 09/02/13 16:20, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > Does anybody know if the REDs support Staggered Spin Up? > > I could not find any info on that on WDC web site. > > In the past, some WDC HDDs supported SSU by software > and/or by jumper, but on these it seems unknown. All my WD drives (Greens and Blacks) do out of the box, so I'd assume the RED does too. In fact, I think the last drive I tried that did not was an old 250GB Maxtor. Everything else seems to.